The Four Dimensions of Presence
Offering personalized mindfulness practices and Presence Psychotherapy: integrates spirituality in therapy utilizing Four Dimensions of Presence to interact with Parts of the Mind, helping safe processing of trauma and difficult experience leading to neurobiological and psychological healing.
Presence Awareness in Day to Day life & in Psychotherapy
Presence is energy that is compassionate, receptive, aware, and exists all the time in and around us. Presence is a robust resource for processing difficult thoughts and feelings.
Relational Presence
Learn to observe somatic reactions and internal flags with curiosity instead of feeling overwhelmed.
Spacious Presence
Establish a resilient container for grounding and processing difficult experiences safely.
Grounded Presence
Harmonize conflicting internal states and parts of the mind to achieve neurobiological and psychological healing.
Transcendent Presence
Harmonize conflicting internal states and parts of the mind to achieve neurobiological and psychological healing.
What is Presence Psychotherapy?
Presence Psychotherapy is a therapeutic approach, published in the APA Journal of Integrative Psychotherapy, developed by Michelle Lepak LCSW. It utilizes Presence Awareness and the client's immediate, moment-to-moment experience to foster well-being, reduce anxiety, shame, depression, process grief and rage, and heal trauma. Unlike traditional talk therapy, it utilizes Four Dimensions of Presence and the wisdom of the body to resolve current distress and heal difficult experiences from the past.
Michelle Lepak, LCSW
Find out about the tools and offerings at the Presence Psychotherapy Institute.
Presence Psychotherapy Institute workshops provide tools to help with stress, relationship difficulty, low self esteem.
Through videos and handouts, learn how experiencing Four Dimensions of Presence and being in relationship with Parts of the Mind can increase well-being.
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We all process and perceive differently.
Everyone seems to easily experience at least one of the Four Dimensions of Presence. Discover your unique way to easily experience and sustain awareness of Presence, and if you are therapist, the way each of your client innately experiences it. Each dimension of Presence provides unique benefits in daily life and during trauma processing.
Presence Psychotherapy facilitates Memory Reconsolidation.
By practicing and experiencing the 4 Dimensions of Presence, we can facilitate memory reconsolidation. Learn how to use Presence in your daily life and relationships.
Excerpts from the Evidence-Based Therapist Podcast
Caleb and Bridger of Think Beyond discuss Presence Psychotherapy: A treatment model for thorough memory reconsolidation. Learn how this clinical framework is utilized.
Presence Psychotherapy is Mindfulness-based and relationally attuned.
Explore the core components of Presence Psychotherapy and hear from practitioners and clients about their experience
Four Frequencies of Presence
We all have an innate resonance with at least one of the Four Frequencies of Presence.
Extraordinary Awareness
The opening of Awareness that can occur in the Presence Psychotherapy’s Presence Orienting process, for some, can be akin to Awareness of connectedness, oneness, colors, and/or ubiquitous love can be experienced through psychedelics without side effects.
Clients who are Spiritual or Religious
The Presence Therapist helps clients who come into therapy with a connection to Spirituality feel safe to have the option to utilize the Resource of their Spirituality in trauma work.
Presence Psychotherapy training offers therapists tools to safely fully access and process implicit traumatic memory
Explore the core components of Presence Psychotherapy and hear from practitioners and clients about their experience
Semantic Memory
Semantic memory refers to factual knowledge, such as knowing that Paris is the capital of France. It is stored in the neocortex and is consciously accessible
Procedural Memory
Procedural memory refers to skills and habits, such as riding a bike or typing. It is stored in the basal ganglia and is largely unconscious.
Emotional Memory
Emotional memory refers to memories of emotions, such as joy, sadness, anger, or fear. It is stored in the amygdala and is largely unconscious.
Sensory Memory
Sensory memory is a very brief memory of sensory information, such as sights, sounds, or smells. It is stored in the olfactory bulb and is largely unconscious.
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